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- For the piano piece by Iannis Xenakis, see Herma (Xenakis).
A herma (Ancient Greek: ἑρμῆς, pl. ἑρμαῖ hermai),[1] commonly in English herm, is a sculpture with a head, and perhaps a torso, above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height. The form originated in Ancient Greece, and was adopted by the Romans, and revived at the Renaissance in the form of term figures and Atlantes.
In the earliest times Greek divinities were worshipped in the form of a heap of stones or a shapeless column of stone or wood. In many parts of Greece there were piles of stones by the sides of roads, especially at their crossings, and on the boundaries of lands. The religious respect paid to such heaps of stones, especially at the meeting of roads, is shown by the custom of each passer-by throwing a stone on to the heap or anointing it with oil.[2] Later there was the addition of a head and phallus to the column, which became quadrangular (the number 4 was sacred to Hermes).[3]
In ancient Greece the statues had an apotropaic function and were placed at crossings, country borders and boundaries as protection, in front of temples, near to tombs, in the gymnasia, palaestrae, libraries, porticoes, and public places, at the corners of streets, on high roads as sign-posts, with distances inscribed upon them.[4] Before his role as protector of merchants and travelers, Hermes was a phallic god, associated with fertility, luck, roads and borders. His name perhaps comes from the word herma referring to a square or rectangular pillar of stone, terracotta, or bronze; a bust of Hermes' head, usually with a beard,[5] sat on the top of the pillar, and male genitals adorned the base. The surmounting heads were not, however, confined to those of Hermes; those of other gods and heroes, and even of distinguished mortals, were of frequent occurrence. In this case a compound was formed: Hermathena (a herm of Athena), Hermares, Hermaphroditus, Hermanubis, Hermalcibiades, and so on. In Athens, where the hermai were most numerous and most venerated, they were placed outside houses as apotropes for good luck.[6] They would be rubbed or anointed with olive oil and adorned with garlands or wreaths.[7] This superstition persists, for example the Porcellino bronze boar of Florence (and numerous others like it around the world), where the nose is shiny from being continually touched for good luck or fertility.
In Roman and Renaissance versions (termini), the body was often shown from the waist up. The form was also used for portrait busts of famous public figures, especially writers like Socrates and Plato. Sappho appears on Ancient Greek herms, and anonymous female figures were often used from the Renaissance on, when herms were often attached to walls as decoration.
Trial of Alcibiades
In 415 BC, on a night shortly before the Athenian fleet was about to set sail for Syracuse during the Peloponnesian War (see Sicilian Expedition), all of the Athenian hermai were vandalized. This was a horribly impious act and many people believed it threatened the success of the expedition.[8] Though it was never proven, the Athenians at the time believed it was the work of saboteurs, either from Syracuse or Spartan sympathizers from Athens itself; one suspect was the writer Xenophon.[9] Enemies of Alcibiades, using the anger of the Athenians as a pretext to investigate further desecrations, accused him of other acts of impiety, including mutilations of other sacred objects and mocking performances of religious mystery ceremonies.[10] He denied the accusations and offered to stand trial, but the Athenians did not want to disrupt the expedition any further, and his opponents wanted to use his absence to incite the people against him at a time when he would not be able to defend himself. Once he had left on the expedition, his political enemies had him charged and sentenced to death in absentia, both for the mutilation of the hermai, and the supposedly related crime of profaning the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Art and popular culture
The J. Paul Getty museum in Los Angeles has a large collection of Roman Herma boundary marker stones in its stored collection.
An Aesop's fable makes fun of statue of Hermes. When a pious dog offers to 'anoint' it, the god hastily assures his worshipper that this is not necessary.[11]
Archaic Greek herm, presumably of Hermes, unusual in that the penis has survived.
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Herm on an Attic red-figure lekythos, 475–450 BC.
A hermaic sculpture of an old man, probably a philosopher. Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan, 2nd century BCE.
Istanbul - Museo archeol. - Erme - Sec. III-I a.C. - Foto G. Dall'Orto 28-5-2006.jpg
Small terracotta herm of Hermes
Male and female Baroque herms at the Rubenshuis.
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Art Nouveau or Neo-Baroque herms in Poland
See also
- ↑ Anatole Bailly, Abrégé du dictionnaire Grec-Français, Hachette, Paris, 1901, p. 361.
- ↑ Nicand. Ther. 150; Theophrast. Char. 16.
- ↑ Paus. vii. 22. § 2; Aristoph. Plut. 1121, 1144; Hom. Od. xiv. 435, xix. 397; Athen. i. p. 16.
- ↑ Brunck, Anal. 3.197, no. 234
- ↑ The image of a youthful, beardless Hermes was a development of the 5th century BCE.
- ↑ Thuc. 6.27; Aelian, Ael. VH 2.41; Suid. s.v. Pollux, 8.72; Athen. 10.437b
- ↑ Theophrast. Char. 16; comp. Genesis 28.18, 22, 31.45-48
- ↑ Thuc. 6.27, with Grote's remarks, ch. 58, 5.146ff.; Andoc. de Myst.; Aristoph. Lys. 1094
- ↑ Introduction "A History of My Times" (Penguin Classics) Paperback – May 31, 1979 by the editor George Cawkwell. Translated from Xenophons' "Hellenica" by Rex Warner
- ↑ Thucydides (2008). The Landmark Thucydides. New York: Free Press, sections 6.27–28.
- ↑ Aesopica
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hermae. |
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Hermae. |
- Ancient Greek Art: Herm Statue, Theoi Project
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities (1890), Perseus Project
- Herm (Greek religion)– Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- Influence of the Phallic Idea: Hermae, Termini, Pillars and "Groves"
- Ice Herms, with primary source passages on ancient herms and on the sacrilege trial of Alcibiades, images of ancient herms from sculpture and vase painting, and photos (including a step-by-step guide to the making) of the University of Chicago ice herms


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Muir, James, banker; b. 11 Nov. 1891 in Sheriffmuir, Stobo, Scotland, son of William Muir and Jane Clark; m. 27 Sept. 1919 Phyllis Marguerite Brayley (d. 1961) in Montreal, and they had one daughter; d. 10 April 1960 near Peebles, Scotland.
James Muir was born into humble circumstances. His father was a roadman who worked on county routes in the Lowlands of Scotland. His mother had been a domestic servant. The family cottage was situated several miles outside of Peebles. Late in life, Muir would relish associating his New World success with his ancestral roots.
Red-haired Jamie attended the local one-room school from age four and a half until he was 12, and then he studied at the high school in Peebles. His dominie (teacher) there, William Forrest, left an indelible impression on young Muir; education was an introduction to the competition of life. Obituaries would claim that learning was reinforced by a "clout of the head" if a student's memory faltered, and that in Forrest's eyes, Muir was a promising student, "aye guid at tottin' up figures." Vigorous, manly sports such as boxing reinforced Muir's approach to life; his nose was slightly crooked, the result of an opponent's blow.
The classroom fostered in Muir a belief in education as the engine of personal advancement. For instance, later in life he would support the work of the Canadian Association for Adult Education under its dynamic director, James Robbins Kidd*. Like the classroom, the church also influenced Muir's character. Every Sunday the family – Jamie had two brothers and a sister – walked six miles to St Andrew's Church in Peebles. At the kirk, the principles of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, with its emphasis on uprightness and worldly activism, were instilled. In adulthood Muir would not be overtly religious, but the values of his Presbyterian upbringing – hard work, moral flintiness, and public rectitude – would echo through his life and be readily transfused into his financial career.
Muir's formal education ended in July 1907, when he left school and joined the Commercial Bank of Scotland. He liked to tell the story of how he graduated from school on a Wednesday morning and then raced across town to the Peebles branch of the bank, where he applied for the position of junior and found himself sitting at a ledger desk by two o'clock that same day. His initial salary was £10 a year. This hurried arrival in the workplace created a legacy. Scottish banks hired their juniors at age 16, but Muir was only 15. He told his prospective employer that he had been born in 1890, a date that would follow him through much of his life. Later, his vanity would lead him to indicate that he had been born in 1892, thereby making himself seem younger. By serving with the Commercial Bank in Peebles for three years, Muir committed himself to a career that opened the door to the modern urban professional class, as banking did for many Scottish lads.
Employment in the Commercial Bank of Scotland inducted Muir into an already well-established culture. Dating back to the formation of the Bank of Scotland in 1695, Scottish banking was renowned for its stability and versatility in filling the financial needs of the country's industry, trade, and domestic consumption. Its strength rested on a number of characteristics: a branch organization that allowed a bank to diversify its operations across the nation, the smooth exchange of notes between banks, joint-stock ownership, lending by cash credit, and the acceptance of interest-paying deposits. These features and their implementation were enshrined in practical handbooks such as George Rae's The country banker: his clients, cares, and work, from an experience of forty years (London, 1885) and James William Gilbart's The history, principles, and practice of banking (London, 1882), both works that had been revised and reprinted numerous times under various titles. Juniors such as Muir were expected to assimilate these guides as fervently as they had absorbed the Shorter Catechism. The goal was to produce a cadre of systematically trained employees who could be deployed throughout a bank's network with the assurance that they would provide predictable service. The education of young bankers was a combination of on-the-job learning – keeping ledgers, manning the teller's cage, and even mastering copperplate handwriting – and taking courses administered by the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland. In 1909 Muir met the organization's standards and became an associate. His annual salary rose to £30. Although the Commercial Bank of Scotland, founded in Edinburgh in 1810, was one of the country's most progressive financial institutions, Muir sought wider horizons. In 1910 he joined the London office of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China in the expectation of being sent overseas.
In 1911 a chance meeting with a Canadian in London drew Muir's attention to the Royal Bank of Canada, which had opened an office in London two years earlier. The Royal, under the aggressive leadership of its general manager, Edson Loy Pease*, was fast asserting itself in Canada and internationally. Chartered just after confederation as the Merchants' Bank of Halifax, it had moved its head office to Montreal, changed its name to the more cosmopolitan Royal Bank of Canada in 1901, and was rapidly expanding across the nation and abroad. This growth was fuelled by the procedures Pease's predecessor, David Hunter Duncan*, had instituted and by the bank boys, as the young personnel, frequently of Scottish origin, were often called. The joint manager of the Royal's London office, James Mackie, a fellow Scot, liked Muir's credentials and offered him a job on the understanding that Muir would pay his own way across the Atlantic.
In January 1912 Muir landed in Halifax and proceeded to the Royal's head office in Montreal, where he passed muster and was quickly dispatched as a junior to the branch in Moose Jaw, Sask. In photographs from these years he is attired as a respectable banker, wearing a suit, white shirt, and bow tie; others show him involved in baseball high jinks with fellow bank juniors. Like Peter Pupkin, the teller in Stephen Butler Leacock*'s Sunshine sketches of a little town (London and Toronto, 1912), Muir was becoming a member of the respectable classes, a professional, and a pillar of the community.
Banking was a much-regimented business defined by a hierarchy based on authority and skills. Muir climbed this ladder steadily and impressively. In 1916 he was transferred to Winnipeg, where he was appointed inspector. The position required him to audit the entire branch system, thereby offering him an intimate knowledge of how the whole bank operated. That same year Muir was made an accountant and, in another sign of preferment, in 1917 he was transferred to the head office in Montreal, where he could see the ebb and flow of national credit making. Unlike many bank boys, who were overwhelmingly a very patriotic group, he appears to have made no attempt to serve in the First World War, perhaps an early indication of his powerful ambition to succeed in business before all else.
The years immediately before the war had seen a spate of mergers that had consolidated Canadian banking into a handful of large institutions centred in Montreal and Toronto. The Royal Bank under Pease had proved to be the most adept in these manoeuvres, joining with strategically situated regional banks such as the Union Bank of Halifax (1910) while at the same time vigorously expanding across Canada and into the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe. By the early 1920s the Royal surpassed the Bank of Montreal as Canada's largest bank, measured in assets. The Royal's corporate culture emphasized the forced advancement of the next generation of managers. Muir was apt material. He conformed to the social pattern of Canadian bankers who were to be model middle-class citizens; their respectability was good for business. Juniors were prohibited from marrying until their salaries could support a family. (This regulation allowed the bank to deploy them around the country without encumbrance.) In 1919 Muir married in Montreal.
Like so many Scots before him, Muir began to make his mark in the ranks of Montreal's anglophone elite. He also engaged in sports that flattered his emerging social status and at the same time gratified his own competitive nature. Golf and curling, both of Scottish origin, were the quintessential banker's sports. In 1921 Muir took up golf and immediately earned a reputation for his aggressive play. "Run for your life," a more leisurely golfer is said to have yelled on the course of the Mount Bruno County Club, "here comes Jim Muir!"
Muir's managerial advance continued in 1923 when he was appointed inspector in Winnipeg for the Royal's western region. In 1925 he was sent to its New York agency to become an assistant inspector. Frequent transfers and new challenges were part of the bank's testing process for up-and-comers. In 1926 one of these challenges entailed a tour of El Salvador and Guatemala with Graham Ford Towers*, a young trade specialist hired from McGill University, in search of possible branch locations. That same year Muir was temporarily marooned at a snowbound train station in the Cordillera de los Andes while inspecting South American branches. In 1928 he became manager of the Royal's main branch in Winnipeg, a crucially important location for the bank's activities in the west. It would be his only front-line executive experience in retail operations, but it rounded out his education. In 1931 he was called back to the head office in Montreal, where he would spend the rest of his career.
As general inspector, Muir oversaw the bank's entire retail operation. He therefore witnessed the immense strain placed on the financial system by the Great Depression. No major Canadian bank succumbed during the period, although Muir was privy to what were at times desperate measures to shore up the institution's liquidity in these grim years. Canada's lack of a government-controlled central bank had troubled the Royal since the last war, and when Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett* established the Bank of Canada in 1934, the Royal welcomed the initiative, especially since one of its own, Graham Towers, was appointed its first governor. Although the Royal Bank's president, Sir Herbert Samuel Holt*, had become a symbol of capitalism's failings in the depression, the organization had long held a progressive attitude towards reform of the nation's monetary affairs. Bankers, Muir told the Advertising Club of Montreal in 1935, were not "a body of men sitting Midas-like upon a hoard of money"; instead they rendered Canadians "a devoted, faithful and intelligent service." When Alberta premier William Aberhart* threatened to ride roughshod over Alberta's banks, the Canadian Bankers' Association dispatched Muir to Edmonton to participate in a series of radio broadcasts to counter Social Credit theory with the "plain facts." At the same time the association commissioned political economist and humorist Stephen Leacock to head west to poke fun at Social Credit's populism.
In late 1934 Holt's failing health had delivered the Royal's presidency into the hands of Morris Watson Wilson, a professionally trained Nova Scotian who had climbed the ladder from a teller's cage to the head office. The following year Muir was appointed assistant general manager of the bank. Canadian banks used the Scottish nomenclature for their executives; Muir was now the chief operating officer and, in many minds, heir apparent. As such, he was central to the bank's pivotal role in the administration of Canada's financial policies during the Second World War – foreign-exchange controls, war-bond drives, the organization of rationing – and its internal adjustments to the strain of war, in particular to the employment of large numbers of women to replace men who enlisted. In 1944 he chaired the Canadian Bankers' Association committee on post-war planning. The committee concluded that the banks were "likely to be interested to some extent at least in almost every phase of post-war reconstruction." Muir counselled his more conservative colleagues to accept the new Keynesian economy with "graceful acquiescence." The banks consequently participated in the interventionist economy by helping to finance programs for rural electrification, home improvement, and small business start-ups.
Wilson's unexpected death in 1946 provoked a crisis in succession at the Royal. Muir, who had been named general manager in December 1945, was deemed still too young to take the helm and so the recently appointed vice-president, Sydney George Dobson, competent but unassertive, became president. The gentlemanly Dobson, however, lacked the competitive verve to push the bank into the burgeoning post-war economy with its strong possibilities for retail and corporate banking. In October 1949 Dobson acknowledged that the time had come "to make way for a younger man" and he stepped down. Muir, who had been made a director in 1947 and vice-president in 1948, took over as president in October. During the next 11 years he transformed the bank from an efficient but narrowly defined financial institution reminiscent of the Exchange Bank in Leacock's turn-of-the-century fictional town of Mariposa into a more diversified and innovative organization that asserted its presence from shopping plazas to corporate boardrooms.
On the retail front, Muir promised to make the Royal "the bank with a thousand front doors." Instead of expecting its clients to come to it, the bank would carry its wares to the people. Suburban branches with ample parking were opened in places such as Don Mills in Toronto and Pointe-Claire on the island of Montreal. Others were established in Refugee Cove (Happy Valley-Goose Bay), Labrador, as well as in Gander, Nfld, and similar towns where Cold War projects had brought prosperity. Existing institutions were redesigned to rid them of their gloomy interiors; the formidable tellers' cages were replaced with more welcoming one-stop wickets. Advertising, once thought by bankers to be unseemly, was begun in part because their institutions now had more services to offer. The revision of the Bank Act in 1954 allowed banks to issue mortgages. Instalment loans were introduced for the purchase of major items such as cars. Responding to Canada's galloping consumer society, the Royal in 1957 provided personal chequing accounts. Fees were now charged for service. Retail banking in Canada ceased to be a relatively passive economic function and became more competitive and entrepreneurial as the institutions vied for clients. Muir drove the Royal's transformation forward, deciding that his persona was to be associated with the bank's new boldness. In 1958, amid much publicity, he escorted a ten-year-old Montreal girl to a branch where he personally opened a savings account for her. Aware that the bank was viewed in Quebec as a bastion of anglophone Montreal business interests, he opened additional branches in the province (128 by 1960), produced the annual report in French, and befriended politicians such as premier Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis. In 1949 the Royal had 727 branches; by 1960 it had 917 spread across Canada and 1,018 when its international branches – stretching from Rio de Janeiro to Paris – were counted.
On the corporate front, Muir went looking for new business. As the economy diversified and regionalized, he realized that the bank could not rest on its traditional portfolio of major clients largely from central Canada – companies that included Alcan Aluminium Limited, Imperial Oil Company Limited, and Noranda Mines Limited – but must tap into areas of growth. He travelled extensively – after buying one of the country's first corporate aircraft – in Canada and abroad to seek out new clients. In the west, he connected the bank with emerging energy companies such as Husky Oil Limited and Westcoast Transmission Company Limited. In New York he brought in clients as diverse as General Motors Acceptance Corporation and the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Nearer home, he landed business from Edward Plunkett Taylor*'s Argus Corporation Limited and the growing media empires of Roy Herbert Thomson* (who became Lord Thomson in 1963) and Jack Kent Cooke*. To reinforce these corporate connections, he worked hard at maintaining close ties with important figures: politicians, including Prime Minister Louis-Stephen St-Laurent*, cabinet minister Clarence Decatur Howe, and Premier Duplessis; central bankers such as Graham Towers; and brilliant corporate lawyers, among them Montreal's Lazarus Phillips*.
In 1949, when Muir became president, the Royal had total assets of $2.3 billion; by 1960 these had risen to $4.3 billion. During the same years annual profits rose from $10.9 million to $19.5 million and the bank's dividend more than doubled. Under the pressure of Muir's aggressive expansionism, the bank's staff swelled from 10,983 employees in 1949 to 16,662 in 1960. Through all these developments, he ruled with authority. There was a dogmatic centralism in his leadership. He delegated poorly and, many said, led through fear as much as by vision. In a decade when Canadian banking was beginning to expand into new areas of service more in tune with the consumerist ethos of the post-war period, including home mortgages and short-term loans, he clung to aspects of the old-school banking culture. He believed that bankers learned their trade on the job and he was averse to abstract education. He resisted hiring university graduates, believing that good bankers were made out of quick-witted high-school graduates. Although computers were beginning to make their influence felt, he distrusted anything that diminished the autonomy of bankers who were supposed to be masters of all that they oversaw. He also conformed to the deeply entrenched view that banking was a male trade, even though the 1950s witnessed an influx of female employees in retail banking. By 1960 the majority of the bank's staff members were women, but they were largely part-time, non-executive workers who, given the gender attitudes of the time, were thought unlikely to meet the demands of banking as a full-time profession. Throughout the system women continued to be called and considered "girls."
Muir's conservative instincts were matched by a towering ego. He missed no chance to present himself as the humble Lowlands lad who had done well in the New World. "I think one of the most important requirements for success," he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1956, "is to form a very definite idea of what you want to be, and to do so at an early age." He took every opportunity to emphasize his pre-eminence. In 1952, before the bank unveiled his portrait in its Montreal boardroom, he had surreptitiously instructed the head-office electrician to diminish the wattage of the lamps illuminating the portraits of his predecessors. He travelled in princely style, flying around the country in a Vickers Viscount turboprop airplane and keeping Rolls-Royce automobiles in New York and London.
Despite his egoism and his traditional methods, Muir possessed an ability to recognize new opportunities and to make dramatic strategic leaps. In 1956, at the height of the Cold War, he astounded Canadians by visiting the Soviet Union. His trip in a small way promoted rapprochement with the Soviets, but more importantly it also allowed the Royal to underwrite Canadian wheat sales to them. In 1958 he went to China and reported with regard to the Communist Party that the "vast majority of the people of China have a government they want, a government which is improving their lot, … a government which stands no chance of being supplanted." Shortly thereafter, the Royal opened a representative office in Hong Kong. At home, Muir sensed the need for the bank to present a more modern face and joined forces with Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau*, Canadian National Railways president Donald Gordon*, New York developer William Zeckendorf, and American architect Ieoh Ming Pei to conceive the Place Ville Marie complex, whose construction in downtown Montreal was announced in May 1958. The building – Canada's first steel and glass corporate skyscraper – would signify the shift of Montreal's economy away from the anglophone dominance of St James Street (Rue Saint-Jacques) and would give the Royal an iconic new head office dominating the Montreal skyline.
The late 1950s saw Muir at the peak of his eminence. He was awarded honorary degrees by Bishop's College in 1955, Dalhousie University in 1956, and the Université de Montréal in 1957. He joined many corporate boards, notably those of the Canadian Pacific Railway and Thomson Newspapers Limited. In his homeland, he was feted for his achievement. In 1952 he became a freeman of the Royal Burgh of Peebles and in 1959 he was installed as warden of Neidpath Castle, situated nearby and celebrated by author Sir Walter Scott. Thomson invited him to join the board of the Scotsman (Edinburgh). Despite Muir's tight-fisted personal philosophy of life, he lent his prestige and the bank's money to many worthy causes, notably the Montreal General Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital. The newly formed Canada Council for the Arts asked him to head its investment committee in 1957. Mindful of his immigrant roots, he spoke out on the importance of "unity in diversity" within Canada and the need "to minimize parochial attitudes and habits of thought" which created barriers to national advancement. Although he seemed to realize that the demographic face of Canada was changing dramatically, he himself adjusted little, remaining unilingual and always projecting his Scottish persona. The Royal would actually start hiring staff from various ethnic groups and advertising itself as a culturally diverse institution in the 1970s.
Muir worked as if he would live forever. He gave little thought to executive succession. "The picture of slippered ease, of escape from the troubles and demands and fret of responsibility," the Gazette (Montreal) wrote, "had no pleasure for him." On 10 April 1960 the end came quickly. While at the wheel of his Rolls-Royce, driving in the hills above Peebles, he died of a massive heart attack. At his funeral in Montreal, the Reverend Rudolph John Berlis, paraphrasing Sir James Matthew Barrie's famous remark that "the poor, proud homes" of Scotland were its "greatest" university, noted in his eulogy that in the "university of the Scottish home," Muir had "learned the virtues of thrift, industry, independence; there he learned that a man's word is his bond; there he learned directness of speech and personal integrity." Muir is buried in Mount Royal Cemetery in Outremont (Montreal).
Royal Bank of Can. Arch. (Montreal) holds documents on James Muir's career and on the bank's operations during the years of his executive responsibility. Among these documents, to which access is limited, are minute-books of the board of directors, correspondence, speeches, reports on the bank's policies and operations, photographs, and biographical materials (among them chronicles of his trips to the Soviet Union and China). Royal Bank Magazine (Montreal) contains many articles on Muir and the world of banking he inhabited, including James Muir, "The travail of the trans-Andean trail," October 1926, and "James Muir, 1891–1960," March–April 1960: 9. Canadian Bankers' Assoc. (Toronto) has in its archives files on the activities in which Muir participated (such as File 87-501-27, concerning the campaign to counter Social Credit attacks on the federal banking system in the 1930s). The official journal of the association published many articles on Canadian banking policies and the challenges that the industry had to face during Muir's career, such as A. W. Rogers, "The Bank Act revision proceedings – 1954," Canadian Banker (Toronto), 62 (1955), no.1: 25–53, and on pp.54–64 in the same issue, W. E. McLaughlin, "Mortgage lending by Canadian banks: its background and introduction," as well as articles on Muir, one being Miriam Chapin's "James Muir," 68 (1961), no.2: 38–48. Many books have been written on the general background of the evolution of Scottish and Canadian banking, notably S. G. Checkland, Scottish banking: a history, 1695–1973 (Glasgow, 1975) and E. P. Neufeld, The financial system of Canada: its growth and development (Toronto, 1972). The author's Quick to the frontier: Canada's Royal Bank (Toronto, 1993) gives the bank's history and analyses the role Muir played in its development.
General Reg. Office for Scot. (Edinburgh), Reg. of births, Stobo, 23 Nov. 1891. Instit. Généal. Drouin, Fonds Drouin, Anglican, Saint Stephen (Montréal), 27 sept. 1919. Gazette (Montreal), 11, 15 April 1960.
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lol wut
Where did they take their sample from? The annual environazi convention?
British folks are plain crazy about leccy cars, according to an RAC poll. The survey – based on 1000 motorists' answers – summarised that roughly 6.7m of Britain's drivers are considering buying a vehicle powered solely by batteries at some point during the next five years. And the figure doesn't sound unreasonable, because a …
I'll stick to my noisy, supposedly environment destroying Focus ST thanks.
I can see a problem arising though with leccy cars, two in fact. At the minute they are exempt from VED and they don't use petrol. That's two massive taxes the government want to throw away. I'd love to hear how they plan to fill that void.
that live in a city, with good infrastructure and short comutes were asked a question
"If electric cars were the same price as petrol and you could get electric from anywhere and the cost to run was less and you are blisfully unware of the techincal shortfalls. Would you buy an electric car in the next five years?"
My Question
"Given the higher costs of electric vehicles, the lack of charging points, the lower speeds and the inabilty to travel to your parents house, go on holidays or even do a business trip coupled with the inabilty to recharge with a fuel can, should you get caught out, would you want a leccy car in the next 5 years?"
Lies, Dammed Lies and Statistics
The gov's scrappage plan, while well meaning, only attracted 35,000 takers (so far), however, with innovators such as Tesla and others offering appealing leccy vehicles, the people are obviously willing to speak/vote with their wallets, no politics required. The greatest immediate benefit of leccy vehicles will be the reduction in local particulate and noise pollution - as anyone who lives near a road can testify too! Great for children whose bodies are being flooded with muck from birth thanks to our reliance on carbon fuels, plastics and useless drugs.
Finally, after all this time, change is in the air! Happy times.
..seem to be the typical inexplicibly-averse-to-new-technologies-that's-probably-eco-guilt-projecting-as-macho-esque-anger.
I'm one of the people that'd want their first car to be electric. We can make electricity carriage more efficient (HVDC power lines) and batteries and motors inevitably.
Can you make diesel or petrol? Oh.
I'm guessing the sample all live in inner london, and are aware of the implications with regard to the 'Congestion Charge".
It would be interesting to see what happens to that if the majority do manage to buy electric cars, and get to drive around the centre for free.
On a similar line to other people, I would have to point out that I am 'considering' a liaison with Ms Hilton...
what you want and what you get.
6.3 Million want electric cars? So what!
I want one too. I want one that does 0..60 in under 10 seconds, has a top speed of >90mph, cruises comfortably at 70mph+, comfortably seats 4 plus luggage, has a 4*+ NCAP rating, recharges in 10 mins or less and costs under £15000.
i.e a direct replacement for my current fossil-burner.
What you actually get is a plastic bug that can barely hit 50mph, runs out of juice after 50 miles, seats 2 (uncomfortably), has bugger-all luggage space, uses you legs as the crumple zone, takes all night to recharge and *still* costs £15k.
My point is that asking if people want X is pointless unless they know what X is. Ask people if they would like a new house for £50 and most will say yes. Tell 'em its from Toys 'R' Us..........
Mains powered vehicles generate twice as much CO2 as a normal petrol vehicle. The government's own figures show that electricity generated for the national grid produces twice as much CO2 per unit of energy.
Until electric vehicles can obtain their energy from sources other than the national grid (which is mostly fossil based fuels) then "e-cars" are the LEAST green options on the planet for the above reason. What's in it for the press and RAC to miss-sell the so-called benefits of e-cars? Don't sell out the planet for a story.
Sir, as a fellow ST driver I have to congratulate you on your superb choice of car. However, if they came up with a leccy version as fast as the ST, costing substantially less than the current £0.16/mile to run, I for one would jump on it.
Oh, and the government is planning to replace the petrol revenue with Road Pricing; up to £1.34/mile with the added bonus of Orwellian GPS tracking of all. Even though 1,800,000 people said 'NO'.
I'd take one in a heartbeat. Except that:
a) I don't have a garage, so I need charging points in my london borough.
b) it needs to include a petrol generator to charge the battery white driving as a fallback, so I can go more than 100 miles and can visit places without plug sockets.
b) I don't want it to look as goddamn ugly as a prius.
c) Soft top please - once you've gone cabrio, you never go back.
But I doubt the RAC asked anything useful like that.
I'm not sure about this electric car business as a green idea - the only way I know of reliably cutting my transport emissions is by sharing the driving with two colleagues. It's not glamorous, it has no IT angle, but it works.
And when I'm rich maybe I'll get a Tesla for playing on B roads at the weekend.
I hope to see you over at focusstoc.com then? I'm already there ... (;
I don't think I'd buy a leccy ST unless it was just so much cheaper I'd be silly not to, but if the costs are comparable then I'll stick to burning petrol. There's plenty of petrol stations to keep me going but no charge points where a leccy car would be charged in 5 minutes (to name but one issue).
I don't expect it to get any better in 5 years time. In fact, I expect leccy tech to fail miserably and that hydrogen will be the tech to take us forward.
Even though we don't know a lot about the specific questions asked we can still surmise a couple of things.
First this was a questionnaire based on stopping people and asking them.
Clearly then people with plenty of time on their hands - not in a hurry as it were.
These people are a lot more likely to put up with the failings of a leccy car, and are willing to buy.
Personally I'm happy on public transport most of the time and on a Streetcar (car club) the dozen or so times a year that I actually need a car. (Though if I didn't live in town that'd certainly change.)
It seems the latest craze of the serial "find some little thing wrong with electric vehicles" brigade is the ~40% efficiency of our national grid to the socket in the home, binging such statements as:
Charged by... By EC Posted Monday 1st June 2009 11:00 GMT
All charged by a national grid which loses the majority (64% by memory) of the power between the powerstation and the socket.......
Stupid people By Gary F Posted Monday 1st June 2009 12:19 GMT
Mains powered vehicles generate twice as much CO2 as a normal petrol vehicle......
You aren't comparing Apples to Apples.
EV's convert 80-85% of the electricity that they take in into motive force. Even taking losses through the National grid into account that's still 30-35% efficient.
ICE powered cars only convert about 15-20% of the energy stored in petrol / diesel into motive force.
So EVs are actually about TWICE as efficient.
There has got to be change - the petrolheads of course will have none of it. But they're barking at the moon. The change is coming, like it or not. It has to.
The logistics of delivering suitable power distribution points into the street are enormous, but not insurmountable. The current technology is still at a very early stage, but advancing rapidly to the point where in a few years it would be reasonable to anticipate EVs able to take on their petrol/diesel counterparts head to head. Necessity being the mother of invention and all that.
Today's tech for EVs is advanced enough to make sense in a journey radius of around 50 miles, which seems ridiculous by comparison with petrol vehicles. But that radius is suitable for a significant amount of road miles such as the school run, local distribution and commuting.
The efficiencies of EV over petrol/diesel are well known and provable, but distorted by the "No" lobby. The economics do a lot better than balance out - my own EV has a financial break-even of 1.2 years against the vehicle it replaced, which I am about to realise in the next 3 months. Provable, no statistics, no supposition, no guesswork. It copes with my 26-mile each way commute, it makes progress with traffic on urban and suburban roads including dual carriageways. In practical terms there are no sustainable arguments against the use of the EV for the commute.
I applaud the official rhetoric in favour of EV - but I also despair at our ability to deliver to it. This nation seems to have lost the ability to actually deliver. But one lives in hope.


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Manufacturer assures veterinarians, pet owners that production and distribution of popular brands will resume.
Pet owners hoping to refill their pets' supply of Sentinel or Interceptor flavor tabs may have to wait a bit longer. Novartis Animal Health, the company responsible for manufacturing these parasiticides, recently issued a statement that while production, packaging and shipping of one of its products, Clomicalm, has resumed at its Lincoln, Neb., facility, full-scale production and shipment are still pending for others, including Interceptor flavor tabs, Sentinel flavor tabs, Deramaxx, Program tablets and suspension, and Milbemite. Novartis hasn't provided exact dates for shipping these remaining products, but reassures veterinarians and consumers that "our robust team of staff and consultants is working hard to ensure that normal production resumes as soon as is practically possible."
In late December 2011, Novartis announced that production and distribution of all products made at the Lincoln facility would temporarily cease in order to address system and process upgrades at the site. Although the company stated that the move to close its facility was voluntary, it became apparent that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had a hand in shutting operations down. Reports released after onsite inspections in 2011 and posted on the FDA's website cited multiple failures in quality assurance and control, including evidence of foreign objects and chipped or cracked product in drug containers and suspected package tampering.
A few months later, in February 2012, the company notified consumers that it would resume distribution and sale of products that had already been manufactured at the Lincoln plant and assured veterinarians and pet owners that they would closely monitor the newly released inventory. However, product supplies quickly dwindled and many of the products have since been backordered, disrupting sales and disappointing pet owners at veterinary clinics nationwide. Making matters worse, the company also received complaints that some of the products—ones that veterinary customers have been told are in short supply—have been showing up in certain retail chain and online stores.
Novartis again reached out to consumers in August 2012 with a letter acknowledging the frustration that pet owners are currently experiencing and requesting that veterinarians save room for the return of its products. The letter from Vice President Andy Ferrigno states, "While we understand your need to do what is right for your business, patients and clients, we hope you will seriously consider saving us a spot on your shelves—we politely ask that you give your Novartis sales representative a chance to earn back your business and not unnecessarily "load" your shelves before year end."


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With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the 1995 Revision of the Radio Regulations, with appendices, signed by the United States at Geneva on November 17, 1995 (the "1995 Revision"), together with declarations and reservations of the United States as contained in the Final Acts of the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-95). I transmit also, for the information of the Senate, the report of the Department of State concerning these revisions.
The 1995 Revision, which was adopted at WRC-95, constitutes a revision of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Radio Regulations, to which the United States is a party. It provides for the simplification of the Radio Regulations, the introduction of new global mobile-satellite services, and new regulatory provisions both for non-geostationary satellites operating in the same frequency bands as geostationary satellites and for other new space services that share spectrum with the space research and terrestrial services.
Subject to the U.S. declarations and reservations mentioned above, I believe the United States should become a party to the 1995 Revision, which will facilitate the development of mobile-satellite and non-geostationary satellite orbit communication services by U.S. Government and industry. It is my hope that the Senate will take early action on this matter and give its advice and consent to ratification.
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The U.S. Justice Department released the below information:
Ardit Ferizi, 20, a citizen of Kosovo, made his initial appearance this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan D. Davis of the Eastern District of Virginia on charges alleging that he provided material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and committed computer hacking and identity theft violations in conjunction with the theft and release of personally identifiable information (PII) of U.S. service members and federal employees.
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of the Eastern District of Virginia, Assistant Director in Charge Paul M. Abbate of the FBI's Washington Field Office and Special Agent in Charge Michelle S. Klimt of the FBI's Jacksonville, Florida, Division made the announcement.
Ferizi, who was detained by Malaysian authorities on a provisional arrest warrant on behalf of the United States, was charged by criminal complaint on Oct. 6, 2015. The criminal complaint was unsealed on Oct. 15, 2015. Ferizi subsequently waived extradition.
If convicted, Ferizi faces a maximum penalty of 35 years in prison. The maximum statutory sentence is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes, as the sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the court based on the advisory sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors.
The investigation is being conducted by the FBI's Washington Field Office and Jacksonville Division. The case is being prosecuted by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Van Grack of the Eastern District of Virginia and Trial Attorney Gregory Gonzalez of the National Security Division's Counterterrorism Section. The Malaysian authorities and the Justice Department's Office of International Affairs also provided significant assistance.


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Melbourne Convention & Exhibition CentreWednesday
2024 Safe & Together™ Model Asia Pacific Conference
Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre | Melbourne
For the first time ever, participants at the 2022 Safe & Together Model Conference will have the opportunity to learn and share meaningful, sustainable strategies for practice and systems
We were all really impressed by the Safe & Together Conference and I personally have to say it's probably one of the best events I've ever attended.
Since the e-learning course, the staff have been more conscious in using the concepts and questions. They have found specific topics covered in the companion document aligning very well with their day-to-day program implementation from family violence and child protection cases.
This Monday I was so pumped and ready to make a difference, that I purposely walked around the child protective investigators building following up on the referrals I had received.
Rebecca's journey with the Safe & Together Institute began in 2024. Rebecca brings a solid educational foundation to her role with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Investments from West Chester University and a Master of Science Degree from Wilmington University. Prior to her tenure at Safe & Together, Rebecca served as the Director of Finance and IT for an entertainment attraction. While finance serves as the cornerstone of her expertise, Rebecca's journey has ventured into the domains of Information Technology and Human Resources. She has cultivated a well-rounded skill set that uniquely positions her as a catalyst for progress within the Safe & Together Institute. At the heart of Rebecca's approach lies a commitment to partnership and ensuring that business growth remains intertwined with organizational mission and goals. Her inclusive mindset is at the core of balanced decision-making.
With over 15 years of business operations, strategy, and partnership experience, Kat has led teams and consulted for global organizations, including Amazon, Procter & Gamble, American Express, and Microsoft. She joined S&TI to accelerate the mission and vision by enabling individuals and teams to find more powerful, efficient ways to deliver results for our expanding global community.
Kat's business expertise spans sales, finance, engineering, product, marketing, HR, legal, and PR. She is an entrepreneur with previous consulting and career coaching business leadership. Kat received her MBA from the Yale School of Management in Sustainability (inclusive of Social Enterprise) and her BFA in Art from New York University.
Christine leads the Finance Team for Safe & Together since her joining in 2023. She has over 20 years of cumulative experience in the areas of finance and business, and change management. Christine is a certified Executive Coach from the Institute of Leadership at United Kingdom. She brings her experience of working in leadership coaching, management training and human resources to her work practice, along with her passion for a mindfulness-based approach. Having qualified in Computer Studies, she also has a wide-ranging experience of technology gained during her tenure in the technology arena.
Jackie Wruck has been a Certified Trainer with the Safe & Together Institute in Australia since 2017 and joins the Safe & Together Institute as the Asia Pacific Regional Manager! Jackie lives in Queensland, AU, and has been working within the community sector for over 20 years. This included working within Government and Non-Government agencies that worked with vulnerable individuals and families in Australia. Jackie has worked in the fields of Child Protection and Domestic Violence as a frontline practitioner in both advocating and crisis support of families. She has also worked in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations as a DV Specialist and would consult on cases that involved Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. Jackie has the lived experience, knowledge and understanding of the issue of DFV in the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and was the cultural lead for the Walking With Dad's program, which is grounded in the Safe & Together Model. Jackie has assisted in bringing both Safe & Together and the Child Protection Child Placement Principles framework together to enhance the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in Australia to assist in keeping Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children out of the Child Protection system. In addition to training on the Safe & Together Model, Jackie continued to use the Safe & Together Model directly with families as a child protection professional, coaching and consulting on cases with domestic violence. She continues to be committed to the safety and well-being of children and families through practice changes through the Safe & Together Model. Jackie will be representing, assisting and supporting Safe & Together Institute in the development and implementation of the model across Australia and Asia Pacific regions.
Donna joined the Safe & Together Institute in December 2022 as a Coordinator for the Trainer Certification Program. She comes to us with a combination of both corporate and non-profit experiences. Previously, Donna held training coordinator positions in the financial sector with The Vanguard Group and Training The Street. In the non-profit sector, she was dedicated to community service, both professionally and personally. As the Training Manager for United Way of Central Carolinas, she managed a leadership development program. Volunteering in her spare time, she became an integral part of domestic violence awareness, advocacy and training. Appointed by the City Council and the Board of County Commissioners, she previously served two years as the Chair of the Domestic Violence Advisory Board in Charlotte, NC.
Donna holds a Masters Degree in Health and Human Performance and a Bachelors Degree in Organizational Communications. Donna has received the "Volunteer of The Year" award from United Family Services, a Commendation Award from the chief of the Charlotte Mecklenburg County Police Department and has had several appearances on local television. Academically, she consistently made the Dean's List; was inducted into Lambda Pi Eta, The National Communication Association Honor Society; and was recognized by the North Carolina State Senate for her academic achievements. With a sense of humor and a lot of inspiration, Donna loves bringing joy and hope to others.
Nicola Douglas has eighteen years of experience in the field of domestic abuse. Her passion for the issue began when she was an undergraduate, volunteering in a homeless hostel and working with women made homeless as they fled abuse. She went on to work as a front-line practitioner in a range of settings, including refuge, outreach (as an Independent Domestic Violence Advisor – IDVA) and Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (ISVA). Nicola's interest lies in systems change and she moved into strategic roles, successfully implementing programmes to improve domestic abuse outcomes within social care, police and the ambulance service. Nicola spent four years at Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse in the UK, with and alongside partners, to improve the way that systems respond to domestic abuse. This included leading a team of coordinators working in healthcare and child protection settings, as well as developing a health-based accreditation scheme. Most recently, Nicola completed her MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice, achieving a Distinction and award for best dissertation which focused on the impact of the Domestic Abuse Act on strategic partnerships in the UK.
Nicola joins the Safe & Together Institute as the European Training Delivery Specialist, working with the EU Lead.
Coming off of an employment history of managing several small businesses in Connecticut and enjoying the growth and expansion process, Kay is a founding employee of Safe & Together Institute, having started with David in 2006. Now overseeing finance, human resources and technology, Kay balances her commitment to the company's growth with hobbies of gardening and novel writing.
Mandy joined the Safe and Together Institute in February 2022 as a bookkeeper. She studied Early Childhood Develop at the University of Maryland European Division in Germany. Prior to working for Safe & Together, Mandy did bookkeeping, customer service coaching, admin support, and managed a transportation charity in Canada for several years.
Janet joined the Safe & Together Institute in 2022. She has a long history of supporting executives to achieve their goals.
Kim started at Safe & Together Institute in November of 2021. She holds a Diploma in Business (Australia) and Hotel Management (South Africa). She began her working career in South Africa working for a leading hotel chain in Event Management, Food and Beverage. She has lived and worked in South Africa, Australia, Singapore, Oman and the USA and has worked in both the private sector on large-scale events globally – including Hong Kong, Malacca, Zambia, Mozambique, and the USA and then working in a project management capacity for the not-for-profit sector in Australia (Australian Institute of Management). As the Training Delivery Project Administrator, Kim provides logistic support to the UK, USA and AU client leads. She maintains the training calendar, is a point of contact for clients and faculty alike and is responsible for client correspondence
once training dates have been confirmed. Kim has a strong commitment to her community and has volunteered in suicide prevention in Australia and animal welfare in both South Africa and the USA.
Dorothy Striker has over 25 years of professional experience in the field of child welfare and domestic violence. In a career that has spanned frontline casework to policy and program development, Dorothy has been involved in major family violence and differential response initiatives. Her areas of expertise include individual and family assessment, structured decision making and risk assessment, CAPTA related policy, practice model development and quality assurance case reviews. Dorothy has also participated in various levels of all three of the federal Child and Family Services Reviews in Ohio. Certified Safe & Together™ Model Trainer since 2010, she has provided multi-day training and case consultations in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Casie Burke, MSEd, PC, has been a trainer of the Safe & Together™ Model since 2012. She has experience training and working with child welfare agencies, as well as other community partners who support child welfare agencies (schools, domestic violence advocates, law enforcement, mental health/substance abuse counselors). She has over 10 years of experience working directly in child welfare, holding various positions including intake and assessment, visitation, parent education, and supervisor. Casie has provided consultation services within agencies surrounding the Safe & Together Model to staff, casework staff, and management. She participated in the National Quality Improvement Center on Child Welfare Involved Families Experiencing Domestic Violence Listening Tour, where she could voice the current state of conditions and challenges, and the potential direction for future research, investments and interventions. Casie is committed to providing training and support to professionals working with families and children surrounding the intersection of child welfare and domestic violence.
With over 20 years of experience in the domestic violence field, Beth Ann Morhardt has worked with both child and adult victims/survivors in many roles including Child Advocate, Children's Community Educator, Adult Advocate, Shelter Services Director and Associate Director. After years of working in direct services Ms. Morhardt transitioned into a consultant role, serving as the Domestic Violence Consultant to Connecticut's Department of Children & Families. In that role, she was able to build and maintain solid collaborations rooted in mutual respect, which resulted in the growth and development of Domestic Violence-Informed practice and skills to better support victims/survivors of domestic violence and their children. Within this role, working directly with perpetrators of coercive control became a focal point and passion within her work. Since 2016 Beth Ann has been a key member of the Faculty with the Safe & Together Institute, where she traveled throughout the US and internationally, collaborating with child protection workers and other community services professionals to increase their proficiency in Domestic Violence-Informed Case Practice. Currently, she works as the Associate Director at a domestic and family violence agency, overseeing shelter, housing, counseling, education and court advocacy services, while also serving as faculty with Safe & Together Institute. Inspired by the current social climate, Ms. Morhardt has returned to a more independent and multi-purposed career with a broader focus on social & racial justice & personal healing.
With over 20 years of experience in the domestic violence field, Beth Ann Morhardt has worked with both child and adult victims/survivors in many roles including Child Advocate, Children's Community Educator, Adult Advocate, Shelter Services Director and Associate Director. After years of working in direct services Ms. Morhardt transitioned into a consultant role, serving as the Domestic Violence Consultant to Connecticut's Department of Children & Families. In that role, she was able to build and maintain solid collaborations rooted in mutual respect, which resulted in the growth and development of Domestic Violence-Informed practice and skills to better support victims/survivors of domestic violence and their children. Within this role, working directly with perpetrators of coercive control became a focal point and passion within her work. Since 2016 Beth Ann has been a key member of the Faculty with the Safe & Together Institute, where she traveled throughout the US and internationally, collaborating with child protection workers and other community services professionals to increase their proficiency in Domestic Violence-Informed Case Practice. Currently, she works as the Associate Director at a domestic and family violence agency, overseeing shelter, housing, counseling, education and court advocacy services, while also serving as faculty with Safe & Together Institute. Inspired by the current social climate, Ms. Morhardt has returned to a more independent and multi-purposed career with a broader focus on social & racial justice & personal healing.
Danielle Martin has more than 20 years of experience working with children and families within child welfare, early childhood development and domestic violence settings. Her work with at-risk children and families has involved direct service provision, management and administration. She initiated her career in the field of domestic violence creating new programming, advocating for additional services and creating improved collaboration at a local level. She served on the Governor's Task Force in Michigan for the prevention of child sexual abuse as a departmental representative. She has trained the Safe & Together™ Model in Michigan and beyond since 2015. Danielle has a Master's degree in Social Work with an emphasis on child welfare. Danielle's focus has been on the provision of trauma-informed care for families and children experiencing child welfare intervention. She has worked closely with community partners to integrate trauma information and practices into schools, mental health, child welfare and residential communities. Danielle has received the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services "best practice award" for her leadership in the development of local child trauma assessment programming.
Sarah Heuser, MS, has nearly 25 years of experience working in the domestic and sexual violence field. Her roots are in direct service work with survivors in grassroots service agencies focused on crisis intervention, counseling-advocacy, outreach, support and program development. She also has substantial experience in training, prevention and awareness efforts and has worked with a broad spectrum of groups ranging from high school and college students to athletes, DV advocates, child welfare, law enforcement and the judiciary. Sarah has also served on multiple task forces and workgroups in Michigan to address policy issues. A substantial focus of Sarah's work has been on the intersection of domestic violence and child welfare. Sarah was a strong early advocate for integrating the Safe & Together™ Model to Michigan and became a certified trainer for the Safe & Together Institute in 2015. Sarah has trained on the Model across the US and in Scotland.
Lisa began her career in child welfare in 2003. She has served in the role of caseworker and supervisor, working long-term with families as well as supervising an Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)/Alternative Response (AR) Unit. Lisa has also been training on the Safe & Together™ Model since 2010.
Lisa previously worked as a Social Worker in an emergency room at a local hospital and a Community Instructor at the Ohio State University College of Social Work. She has a Master of Social Work and is a licensed Social Worker.
Lórien Castelle has been an activist and advocate for social justice focusing on ending gender-based violence for over two decades. She has had the honor of working with several national organizations across the United States including work as a trainer for the National Center on Domestic Violence, a prevention consultant to the National Resource Center on Domestics Violence, a trainer and consultant for Major League Baseball (MLB) and currently for the Safe & Together Institute.
While working as the Director of Prevention for the New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, she was responsible for promoting best practices for preventing and responding to domestic violence and coordinating diverse stakeholders to design and implement community, regional and state-level initiatives. She also worked with the Pennsylvanian Coalition Against Domestic Violence to launch a statewide prevention initiative in Pennsylvania.
Ms. Castelle brings a wealth of experience with coaching, support and training to both domestic violence programs and allies. She has specialized experience with community organizing, organizational development and prevention strategies. In addition, Ms. Castelle has served on numerous national, statewide and regional committees and is a much sought-after trainer, meeting facilitator and keynote speaker.
Rhonda Dagg has over 20 years of experience working in the child welfare field in a variety of roles including front line worker, supervisor and business analyst. In her current role as a CFS Program and Leading Practice Specialist, Rhonda is a passionate advocate for families affected by domestic violence and a strong supporter of staff who work with these families. She is also the media consultant for federally funded systems change project created to reduce gender-based violence and improve outcomes for children and families.
Rhonda has utilized the Safe & Together™ Model in her work since 2014, writing policies, coaching and mentoring staff and trains internationally for the S&T Institute. In her personal time, she also creates educational material and videos for the community on gender-based violence and prevention.
Kristi Burre began her professional career over 22 years ago in local and state government, community partnerships, and system transformation. Most recently, she served as the Director of Children's Initiatives for Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, focusing on child well-being and driving improvements with communication and coordination across all state agencies providing services to children and families. In this role, she prioritized system enhancements and advancing policy with early childhood education, early intervention and prevention services, maternal and infant health, child physical and mental health, and children services. Kristi has vast experience collaborating with local, state, federal, and private sector partners to align efforts and investments to have the largest possible impact on improving outcomes for children, families, and communities.
Kristi has worked extensively in the child protection and foster care system in the capacities of caseworker, supervisor, manager, and director. In addition to her public service work, she has held various roles teaching, training, and coaching for the last 22 years, to include roles as a social and behavioral sciences adjunct instructor at Columbus State Community College, and a trainer and executive coach with the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program.
Kristi has been a Safe & Together Institute Senior Faculty and certified trainer since 2011 and is committed to guiding child and family serving agencies to become more domestic violence informed. She has trained professionals in North America, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom from various disciplines, to include child protection, domestic violence advocacy, law enforcement, education, behavioral health, juvenile justice, health care, and the legal community. She also coaches and mentors professionals from across the world involved with the trainer certification program and observes training sessions for evaluation, feedback, and approval for certification.
Additional leadership roles have included chairing the Ohio Governor's Children Services Transformation Advisory Council and Eliminating Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality Task Force. Kristi has also held leadership positions and appointments for many other state and local entities committed to protecting children and strengthening families, including the Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Board, Ohio Children's Trust Fund Regional Prevention Council, Ohio Intimate Partner Violence Collaborative, and Ohio Early Childhood Advisory Council. She holds a bachelor's degree in sociology, criminology and psychology from Capital University and a master's degree in sociology from Ohio University.
Ashley Bowers, MSW/LSW, has been a Trainer with the Safe & Together Institute since 2012. She facilitates training and consultation services around the Safe & Together™ Model for child welfare professionals. Ashley is a licensed social worker who has worked throughout the child welfare field for over eleven years. She has worked as a Child Welfare Intake Supervisor in both intake and ongoing departments. In addition to training on the Safe & Together Model, Ashley has utilized the Safe & Together Model directly with families as a child welfare professional, coaching and consulting on cases with domestic violence. She continues to be committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and families through practice changes through the Safe & Together Model.
Kari Akins is the Assistant Deputy Director of the Office of Families and Children at the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services responsible for state level administration and oversight of child and adult protective services. Prior to this position, Kari was appointed to the Office of Children Services Transformation leading children services and foster care efforts in Ohio. With 20 years' experience in the child welfare system, Kari has served in multiple capacities including screening, intake and assessment for direct service, and community response and outreach at an administrative level. In addition, Kari's work has emphasized community collaboration and education regarding child maltreatment and trauma, the intersection of domestic violence and child welfare practice, and coaching/supervision in child welfare. In 2010, Kari began her work with the Safe & Together™ Model as part of a pilot county in a statewide rollout of the Model, allowing her to be at the forefront of this practice in her state. Kari has served as an advocate on numerous local and state-level workgroups to address best practice policy around Intimate Partner Violence while providing education and training at the state and national level as Faculty for the Safe & Together Institute.
Alison joined the Safe & Together Institute in August 2021 as an Administrative Assistant for the Trainer Certification Program. Prior to this, she provided almost a decade of support to the Certified Trainer community at the Center for Nonviolent Communication in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Alison thrives in an environment where she can support the work of those positively impacting the world for the greater good. She is thrilled to be part of Safe & Together's mission to be an agent of systemic change in the domestic violence field.
Minh-Chau has been with the Safe & Together Institute since June of 2021 as the Virtual Academy Customer Experience Specialist. Her time with eLearning in the non-profit sector, with patients experiencing chronic pain and illness, and 15 years of customer service, back her lifelong goal of helping individuals pursue personal sustainability. Her goal at the Institute is to make the online learning process as easy as possible so that learners can focus on what matters most: maintaining themselves and peace at home.
Colleen has 20 years of experience working at the intersection of mental health, domestic violence, and education. She has worked as an educator and advocate in DV shelters, teen safe houses, residential programs for at-risk youth, and programs for adults with disabilities. For the past 10 years, Colleen has worked in rural Mississippi with children and families impacted by mental health. She serves on the inaugural Board of the domestic violence shelter in Oxford, Mississippi. In 2010, she authored a curriculum that was awarded an Iowa Women's Foundation grant for implementation state-wide. Colleen is passionate about making tools that equip individuals to be agents of positive change in the systems where they work and live.
Lindberg joined Safe & Together Institute in June 2021 as Events Logistics Administrator. His professional career includes over fifteen years of experience in live music event coordination and marketing, artist management, and tour logistics. As an activist with a focus on equity for youth and equity through education, he volunteers with the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, and participates in projects that advocate for systemic and equitable policy change in K-12 education. Lindberg is passionate about social justice, personal growth, love, art, and adventure.
Jacob Linzenbold has been with the Safe & Together Institute Staff since March, 2021 and currently holds the title of Resource Development, Events & Evaluation Administrator. He works across the organization with each department to ensure that each team is on the same page and best serving survivors and advocates. Jacob graduated from Penn State University and has been involved with several start up companies, giving him the skill set necessary to help with the different aspects of the organization. Jacob excels in providing mentorship and advice to prospective business founders and enjoys teaching students. In his spare time, he enjoys going on adventures and exploring nature with his fiancé and their dog.
Dana Schmersal has been involved in child and family policy and programs for nine years, most recently managing Safe & Together trainings for child welfare staff across the state of Ohio. She has worked directly with families impacted by the juvenile justice system, provided training for child support staff working with families impacted by domestic violence, advocated for women's reproductive rights, and served as communications director for a state and federal child advocacy organization and taught as an adjunct professor for the Interdisciplinary Child Welfare Institute at Capital University Law School. Currently, she is a member of the Institute's Resource Development Team and coordinates the certified trainer mentoring program. She has completed both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in social work as well as a B.A. in criminal justice and has made advocacy for vulnerable populations and improvements in community and system responses the focus of her macro practice.
Peju Thompson has been with Safe & Together Institute since July 2020 providing international accounting support for Safe & Together Institute's business overseas. Peju holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Rutgers University and a Master of Science Degree in Accounting from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Prior to working for Safe & Together, Peju was a staff accountant for both a mid-size CPA firm and in city-government. In addition to her diverse professional experience, she enjoys working with people and endeavors to always positively impact others.
Leah has been working as a social worker in the fields of child welfare and domestic violence victim advocacy since 2007. She has experience as a child welfare services provider, a domestic and sexual assault victim advocate, a therapist specializing in work with adult and child survivors and perpetrators, a men's behavior change program facilitator and the coordinator of domestic violence training and response for the Department of Human Services in Iowa. Leah first became connected to the Safe & Together Institute during her tenure as state coordinator when she helped facilitate the implementation of the Safe & Together Model across the state. She came on board in 2020 as a Resource Development Specialist, creating DV-informed curriculum, eLearning and practice tools. She also worked to coordinate programming for our Events. Leah is passionate about equipping professionals with the tools they need to do effective work with families and engage in larger agency and systems change.
Ingryd began at Safe & Together Institute in June of 2019. Ingryd holds a degree in Social Behavioral Science. She expanded her educational background to include a Bachelor's degree in English and a minor in History from the University of California, Irvine. She fluently speaks, writes and reads Spanish.
Ingryd's career began when she worked for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), a national leadership program that assists and trains Latino elected and appointed officials on issues important to the Latino population. Here she became inspired to help motivate the Latino community to become naturalized US citizens and engage in civic life. Ingryd simultaneously went to school and also earned a Paralegal diploma. She then served as a Criminal and Immigration Law Paralegal where she was responsible for researching case law for deportation, domestic violence, child and family cases.
Ingryd believes education gives knowledge and knowledge is important for building informed opinions. She strongly believes educators can make a strong impact on a student's life. For this reason, she teaches as a Per Diem Substitute Teacher where she encourages a positive learning environment and develops students' ability and aspiration to learn.
As the TCP and Technology Administrator, Ingryd provides high-level technology assistance and utilizes superior tact and diplomacy when coordinating and changing event registrations, or pre-and post-event evaluations. It is important to her to address our learners and participants in the right manner as well as stay connected with them until navigating the online courses becomes comfortable and events are finalized.
Shelly Napoletano Flynn, MSW began at Safe & Together Institute in July 2018 as the Trainer Certification Program Manager overseeing the Institute's Certified Trainer Expansion. Shelly's professional career includes over twenty years of experience in the field of child welfare with a dual focus on direct practice with children and families and systems-level social work practice. With the focus on children birth through age eight and their families, her career included direct service, case management and administration which included intersections with statutory child protection, juvenile and family courts, mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence, and local crisis response teams.
Shelly's experience in systems-level practice involved projects such as the evaluation and development of a community's local capacity to holistically serve its at-risk population of children and families. Additionally, she evaluated and reported on the state-wide supervision practices of Connecticut Certified School Social Workers. As a result of this research, Shelly served on the State of Connecticut Department of Education's Task Force to develop and implement properly aligned and discipline-specific evaluation standards for school-based social workers in the State of Connecticut. Additionally, her work in systems practice led to the honor of being invited to present on local capacity development of a Birth through Age Eight Children and Family Initiative to the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a division of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services in Washington DC.
Anna Mitchell's interest in women's issues began when she studied a degree in Geography with Gender Studies at Edinburgh University in 1996. After working in various women's organisations she went on to gain her Social Work Masters and began to think about the importance of engaging with men who abuse in order to increase the safety of women and children. She worked as a Women's Service Worker with the Caledonian System; an integrated approach to addressing domestic abuse combining a court-ordered programme for men, aimed at changing their behaviour, with support services for women and children. Anna co-authored the Caledonian System Women's Service Manual and was seconded to the Equality Unit in the Scottish Government as a Professional Advisor to support the roll-out of this innovative system across Scotland. Since 2012, she has been employed as Domestic Abuse Lead Officer for Edinburgh's Public Protection Partnership with the remit to help coordinate domestic abuse services across the council, police, health and the voluntary sector. Anna has completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Services Leadership and led a number of initiatives in Edinburgh to improve systemic responses, not only to adult and child victims but to domestic abuse perpetrators; including the development of auditing tools, improvement plans, service pathways, policies and training. In her current role, she is representing the Safe & Together Institute in the UK and is supporting the development and implementation of the Model across Great Britain.
Ruth has been in training and implementation since 1995. Her career began as a middle school teacher in post-revolutionary Nicaragua. As a teacher in a developing, post-war country she became dedicated to issues surrounding social justice and violence. She later transitioned to higher education and worked at the Bryman School and at The Art Institute of Phoenix as an Assistant Director of Admissions. Her responsibilities included vetting prospective students and identifying barriers to enrollment and to matriculation.
After taking a break to raise her three children, she began working as a trainer and technical support for a national professional line nutritional company and an international professional line herbal company which trained medical professionals in alternative therapies.
In her role, she trained doctors and medical professionals in clinical application and was an ongoing support for successful implementation through patient outcomes. She developed systems for practice management, patient support, managed, created and promoted cyclical education events for clinical success. She developed training strategies to respond to a variety of real-time field challenges.
Ruth also worked as a professional business coach specializing in systems and practice management. Her dedication to understanding root challenges, institutional, structural and personal impediments that keep people from applying their skills and knowledge in a targeted and successful way helped many of her clients increase their business success.
Aside from her professional accomplishments, Ruth is a published poet, writer and public speaker. Ruth has worked with clients using various energy medicine and body-centric coaching techniques for trauma recovery. Drawing on her childhood experiences growing up in an abusive, religious cult and as a survivor, she is a fierce advocate for those who have experienced abuse. She is dedicated to helping survivors and allies understand behavioral coping mechanisms arising out of trauma and mitigating societal and personal judgments surrounding common human responses to violence and harm. This transformative approach helps those who have experienced violence and their allies better understand how to support, nurture and nourish survivors in a common-sense manner and without blame.
Brittany DiBella has been with the Safe & Together Institute since 2015. Brittany has extensive experience developing curricula, e-learning content, and resources, as well as with providing consultation and training facilitation on the Safe & Together™ Model for a wide range of family-serving professionals. Brittany has over 10 years of experience in the field of domestic violence work including research and evaluation of New Jersey's co-located advocate program; educating advocates, child welfare professionals and social work students on issues related to violence against women and children; direct-practice experience with survivors of trauma and interpersonal violence and work with adolescents impacted by violence. Brittany also served on New Jersey's Child Fatality Review Board in 2017, is certified in Violence Against Women & Children from Rutgers University School of Social Work and is certified in New Jersey as a Domestic Violence Specialist.
Heidi has over 30 years of experience in the sexual and domestic violence fields and social justice. She has worked in crisis counseling, program and policy development and advocacy in both the United States and Canada. Heidi received a Master's in Public Administration with a concentration in domestic violence from the University of Colorado at Denver, the only program of its kind in the country. In her current role as Associate Director and North American Lead, she helps agencies navigate plans for systems change and supports efforts to build capacity through training and collaboration. Heidi also oversees the Institute training staff, faculty and mentors, manages training for Certified Trainers and presents nationally and internationally.
With over 30 years of experience in the domestic violence field, David's international training and consulting focuses on improving systems' responses to domestic violence when children are involved. Through years of work with child welfare systems, David has developed the Safe & Together™ Model to improve case practice and cross-system collaboration in domestic violence cases involving children. He has also identified how a perpetrator pattern-based approach can improve our ability to help families and promote the development of domestic violence-informed child welfare systems.
David and the Safe & Together Institute's staff and faculty have consulted to United States' child welfare systems in a number of states, including New York, Louisiana, New Jersey, Iowa, Wisconsin, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Michigan, New Mexico, the District of Columbia, Vermont, Oregon and Ohio. In the last five years, their work has expanded outside the United States with research, training and consultation in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and other countries. The Safe & Together Institute works closely with domestic violence advocates, in the United States and abroad, to help them more effectively work with child protection systems and better advocate for child welfare-involved adult and child domestic violence survivors. David has written and published online courses which has launched a new Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer initiative that will increase the Institute's ability to support sustainable implementation of domestic violence-informed practice in the US and abroad.
David has written or co-written journal articles on batterer's perceptions of their children's exposure to domestic violence, domestic violence case reading tools, and the intersection of domestic violence and child welfare practice. His chapter on "Batterers and the Lives of Their Children" was published in the Praeger Series Violence Against Women in Families and Relationships.


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The Park Forest Board of Trustees Monday evening will officially designate a section of Lakewood Boulevard, from Forest Boulevard to Orchard Drive, as Honorary Officer Tim Jones Way.
A dedication will take place at 6 p.m. just outside of the Park Forest Police Department with a resolution to be read immediately following at 7 p.m. at Village Hall.
Jones, a second generation police officer, hired by the Park Forest Police Department in June of 2015 was critically wounded in the line of duty on March 19, 2016. Given little chance of survival in the days following the shooting, Jones would defy all odds and make a miraculous recovery. A little over a year after the incident, Jones was released from a rehabilitation facility.
Today, Officer Tim Jones continues to rehabilitate and serves as a source of inspiration for all who know his story.


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The search is underway at Arroyo Valley for a new boys basketball coach after coach Gerry Wright has taken a job as the head coach at Barstow College.
The hiring was mentioned by San Bernardino Valley College's athletics twitter account and also confirmed by Arroyo Valley athletic director Matt Howell. Wright was also previously the head coach at SBVC.
According to maxpreps.com, Wright was the head coach at Arroyo Valley the last four years, leading the Hawks to no league titles, but reaching the playoffs in each of the four years. He was only the second coach in school history, succeeding Scott Smith.
Howell said they are in the process of hiring Wright's replacement.


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TOTAL CMS v1.2 with BLOG
This is not your typical update, in fact it may be my largest update ever for any of my products. Total CMS v1.2 brings in 45 new stacks into the CMS. That is nuts! Most of these new stacks are for powering the revolutionary new Blog.
While the Blog is just getting released to the world today, its already a highly mature product. It has gone through a highly active public beta for the past 6 months. The sites that users are building using the new blog have been blowing me away. These are no longer your typical RapidWeaver sites.
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- Add images inline with your post content
- The feature list can go on and on…
The blog isn't the only thing amazing about this update. The rest of the CMS components saw a ton of bug fixes and enhancements as well. Here are some highlights.
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- Hipwig has been improved with colors, fullscreen edit, code view, character counter and more.
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We have already done a bunch of great video around this Total CMS update. Here are a few that you may be interested in watching.
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I've seen constraint and restriction used quite often in scientific literature.
For example,
This algorithm needs to be further improved due to severe space constraint and restriction.
I simply can't figure out the subtle difference between constraint and restriction. They seem to be circularly defined according to each other. I assume that they must be different in some way. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been used together so often. If they were really close enough in meaning, why not just drop one and use the other? Or are they used in combination to place an emphasis?


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Jose Morales
The Georgia Department of Corrections recently announced the reassignment of Jose Morales to warden of the Long State Prison in Ludowici. Morales has been with the department for 15 years and began his career as a corrections officer at Rutledge State Prison. He also served at Macon State Prison, South West Georgia Corrections Academy and the Western Pre-Release Center. He was named Deputy Warden of Security for Calhoun State Prison in 2007 and was promoted to warden at Johnson State Prison in 2010. Morales also served the U.S. Army Airborne Infantry for more than 23 years and earned his criminal justice certificate from Columbus State University.


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